Happy 15th Birthday, WordPress!

This weekend WordPress turns 15. Since it’s creation as a blogging platform, the CMS has grown to be able to power the largest enterprise digital experiences. Check out 15 WordPress milestones that made the CMS what it is today! To get the party going, we created a Spotify list using music from all of the …
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Learning Gutenberg: React 101

Although Gutenberg is put together with React, the code we’re writing to make custom blocks isn’t. It certainly resembles a React component though, so I think it’s useful to have a little play to get familiar with this sort of approach. There’s been a lot of reading in this series so far, so let’s roll-up our sleeves and make something cool.

Article Series:

  1. Series Introduction
  2. What is Gutenberg, Anyway?
  3. A Primer with create-guten-block
  4. Modern JavaScript Syntax
  5. React 101 (This

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Learning Gutenberg: Modern JavaScript Syntax

One of the key changes that Gutenberg brings to the WordPress ecosystem is a heavy reliance on JavaScript. Helpfully, the WordPress team have really pushed their JavaScript framework into the present and future by leveraging the modern JavaScript stack, which is commonly referred to as ES6 in the community. It’s how we’ll refer to it as in this series too, to avoid confusion.

Let’s dig into this ES6 world a bit, as it’s ultimately going to help us understand how …

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What Is Holistic Web Design?

Google “holistic web design” and you’ll see a lot of results that encompass health and wellness. But that’s not really what designers and developers usually mean when they mention holistic web design. In the most simple of explanations – we’ll dig deeper after this – holistic web design is a process of thinking about all […]
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Just a Couple’a Fun Typography Links

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A Comprehensive List of GDPR-Related Resources

There’s been a lot of talk about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) so far this year. In fact, there’s been so much talk that it’s easy to lose track of what’s most important to understand. Given the penalties imposed for non-compliance, this could be catastrophic. While there are a wide array of articles on …
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5 Artificial Intelligence Tools for Content Marketing

Content discovery, writing, editing, SEO, content distribution, and data analysis are some of the operations that you can automate with AI. Find out five great tools to improve and speed-up your content marketing workflow. How can you automate and scale-up your content marketing operations with artificial intelligence? What can you do today? In this article, …
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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Mass Deletion of Unused WordPress Plugins

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. There are over 9,000 plugins that have been approved, but the developers never uploaded the code. It’s believed that many of these developers submitted their plugins …
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Making your WordPress Database HEART Healthy

If your WordPress site was analogous to the human body, the core code would be the brain and your plugins and theme would be the rest of the central nervous system that makes the site do what you tell it to do.  However, in the Information Age, where data is currency and the lifeblood of …
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